On 9/26/16 7:56 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 9/26/16 8:53 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think that it's 100% pointless for get_control_dbstate
>> to be worried about transient CRC failures. If writes to pg_control
>> aren't atomic then we have problems enormously larger than whether
>> "pg_ctl promote" throws an error or not.
>
> The new code was designed to handle that, but if we think it's not an
> issue, then we can simplify it. I'm on it.
How about this?
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